Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...
Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...
...scholar, 19th Century Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. His Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) was not only the nearest thing the Navy had ever had to a formal philosophy of naval power, it also won friends & influenced people in favor of a mighty U.S. fleet. Last week the U.S. Navy, which thinks it could use more friends, revealed that it was looking for some new Mahans...
...flourished for half a century at Cornell, but even in student opinion they had gone too far. Said the Cornell Daily Sun: "Cornell's doctrine of 'freedom with responsibility' had clearly been abused . . . The administration will not and should not allow us to kill ourselves . . ." Last week the faculty committee made Acting President de Kiewiet's ban permanent...
Following the lead of U.S. Steel Corp., most of the other steel companies last week upped prices an average of $4 a ton, or 4%. The rise was to compensate for higher costs, including the steelworkers' new pension program. Bethlehem Steel Co. was the first of the big steelmakers to tell just how much its new pensions would cost. Chairman Eugene G. Grace said: "Only a relatively small percentage of employees will . . . receive pensions, because the great majority of them either die or otherwise terminate their employment before . . . pensionable...